How do I come up with blogging ideas for my nonprofit website or my online business? A question that is often asked. When you put this issue in the … [Read More...]
Latest Posts
Designing Hands-On Technology Training
Karen Graham, executive director of Idealware, interviewed me earlier this year on designing and logistics of hands-on … [Read More...]
Logistics for Hands-On Training
Karen Graham, executive director of Idealware, interviewed me earlier this year on designing and logistics of hands-on … [Read More...]
Top 5 most read stories – Daily #NPTech News via @Nuzzel
Since April 16th, 2017, our new #NPTech News daily newsletter goes out every day, except Sundays, to our subscribers at … [Read More...]
Increasing Your Social Media Visibility via Google, Facebook and Twitter
Let’s start with the understanding that the more efficiently you can connect with your target audience, the more … [Read More...]
Why WordPress for Nonprofits?
There are plenty of content management systems available in the internet space. In 2009, in the context of finding a … [Read More...]
Donor Bill of Rights
So who is looking out for the donor? In 1993, the Association of Fundraising Professionals published the Donor Bill of … [Read More...]
Donor Privacy in Online Donations
Is Stewardship of Donor Privacy a Value? Attracting and maintaining donors is the lifeblood of smaller nonprofit … [Read More...]
National and Global Public Awareness & Giving Day 2017 as Google Calendar
Heather Mansfield, Nonprofit Tech 4 Good, published the 2017 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar earlier this … [Read More...]
Archive
WordCamp US Session Picks for Nonprofits – Live-streaming from Philadelphia
As a Floridian weather wimp, I prefer to stay in Florida for the Winter. As much as I would enjoy meeting fellow WordPress evangelists, developers and educators and geek-out over Rest API or the Customizer at WordCamp US in Philadelphia, I prefer to be an armchair WordCamper, armed with my Chromecast and a Livestream ticket. WordCamp […]
Donate Now Button a Problem?
Recently I facilitated a discussion about online fundraising in one of our Impact Circles. It’s fair to say that about half of the Executive Directors present did not know that the majority of the laws about charitable fundraising are controlled at the state level. At the time of this writing, there are approximately 40 states […]
Google Index Goes Mobile First. Soon.
Google announced in early November that they would index mobile pages first. And only as plan B, they will index desktop version of websites. TL;DR: If you already have a responsive website and the content on both versions are the same, you don’t have to do anything. If you serve mobile visitors a stripped down version, and […]
Content Management Systems in the 21st Century
In the 20th century, websites needed webmasters who could write in HTML to render the code into a visual framework. In fact, every time a site manager wanted a change to the content on a site, the HTML code needed to be changed on every page to reflect pagination as well as content changes. If […]
Google: go HTTPS or go home
Last month, my partner in Relevanza, Steve Hart, wrote about Google’s push for a secure website on Relevanza Blog. To force website developers to a more secure online status the world’s most popular browser, Chrome, will be a tool for Google: go HTTPS or go home. Google will begin in January to warn internet users […]
How to find graphics on the Web for Social Media and Blogs
We use a small set of sites to find graphics to use as a featured image for a blog post, or as a basis for our social media posts. You also might be looking outside your own organization’s photo albums for enticing graphics to use on your website and social media profiles. We often get this […]
Thinking about organizing tech training for your staff? TechSoup has the right course for you!
More and more, nonprofit organization are run on technology in all different ways. A lot of small organization have major functions staff with volunteers with different levels of technology education. Organizations will need to make space for tech training of staff and volunteer. TechSoup just unveiled a new online learning system and published the first […]
Happy #PodcastDay – New NPTech Podcast available & more
Just in Time for International #PodcastDay, we released our first episodes of our new podcast. Your hosts are Birgit Pauli-Haack and Jim O’Reilley. One of our prime objectives at NPTechProjects is to assist nonprofit organizations with 21st-century technology. If you are not sure what we mean by that, read on. If you are not using […]